At least the five members of ProPublica's "Longform Storytelling In A Short-attention Span World" came to that conclusion.

The New Yorker editor David Remnick, This American Life host Ira Glass, Frontline's Raney Aronson-Rath, and ProPublica managing editor Stephen Engelberg joined moderator and Need to Know co-anchor Alison Stewart on stage to discuss the role of longform in the age of Twitter.